Ullage rod



Feb. 7, 1928.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

`REICHARD SIDNEY HILEN, 0F LUFXI'N, TEXAS.

'U'LLAGE ROD.

Application filed January 7, 1926. Serial No. 79,851.

This invention ninos to provide a simple operator to secure a firm holdon the body means whereby the depth ol the liquid in l, whilst the indexlinger Q'is pressed down a gasoline tank on a. car, or in any other onthe end of the body l. to close the opencontainer, may be ascertainedwithout difiiing 2. The opening 2, however, is uncov- 45 5 culty, andwith reasonable accuracy. ered when the body l is thrust downwardly ltis within the province of' the disclosure into the liquid, the liquidrisingr in the body to improve generally and to enhance the l throughthe opening 3, the indicator Ll utility ot devices of that type to whichthc sloping on the liquid. The opening 2 is invention appertains.'closed in the way hereinbet'ore described, 50 10 `With the foregoingandother objects in and the body 2 is lifted out ci" the tank or View whichwill appear as the description other container, and the operator, bynoting proceeds, the invention resit es in the conibithe position or theindicator t with respect nation and arrangement oi' parts and in the tothe scale 5, can ascertain at a glance how i details ot' constructionhereinafter described inuch liquid there is in the tank. l5 and claimed,it being` understood that ritter the 4operator has made the necessarychanges in the precise embodiment olthe observations, the finger 9 islifted off the invention herein disclosed, may be niade hole 2.whereupon the liquid will run out within the scope `of what is claimed,without through the hole 3. departing from the spirit of the invention.lWhat is claimed srso zo In the drawings In a device of the classdescribed, an .Figure l shows in elevation, a device conelongated tubehaving a longitudinal scale, structed in accordance with the invention;the tube having integral upper and lower and end portions provided withreduced openliigure 2 is a longitudinal section. ings, and a floatlocated within the tube and 65 a5 ln carrying out the invention, thereAis adapted to cooperate with the scale, the provided an elongatedtubular body l, preopening in the upper end of the tube being erablyinade of glass or other transparent adapted to be stopped by one fingeroi the material, the body l being; provided in its human hand, the tubebeing constricted at upper end with a reduced opening 2, and u pointadjacent to its upper end, to Yforni a To Y 3o being; supplied in itslower end with a recircumferential seat adapted to receive two ducedopening 3. A buoyant indicator 4 is other lingers of the saine hand toenhance movable within the body l, the size ot the the hold of thosefingers on the tubo and to openings 2 and 3 being such that theindiprevent the tube :troni being pushed out oit cater or 'float 4lcannot drop out of the body.` the hand when pressure is applied b v the'.lhe body l carries an external scale 5, which thirdv finger ,duringthe aforesaid stopping may be constructed as desired. Adjacent to of theupper opening. its upper end, the body l. has a circunrterenln testimonythat I claim the foregoing tial seat t3. y 1 as my own, I have heretoaffixed my signaln practical operation, 'the thumb t ot' ture.

engaged in the seat 6, the seat enabling the RICHARD SIDNEY PHXLEN.

